GameSpy Technology

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GameSpy Industries, Inc.
Company type
Subsidiary of Glu Mobile Inc.
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HeadquartersCosta Mesa, California and San Francisco, California
Key people
Todd Northcutt (Division Vice President)
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ParentGlu Mobile Inc. (2012–present)

IGN Entertainment, Inc. (2000–2012)

Independent (1997–2000)
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GameSpy Technology (also known as GameSpy Industries, Inc.), a division of Glu Mobile, was the developer of the GameSpy Technology product, a suite of middleware tools, software, and services for use in the video game industry.

Gamespy Technology was acquired by Glu Mobile in 2012. The company and service were shut down in May 2014 when GameSpy was shut down.

Technology

GameSpy Technology consisted of an array of portable C SDKs that plug into hosted web services that provided the following functionality:

  • Game advertising and player matchmaking[1]
  • Player and team scores and statistics gathering, arbitration, ranking, rules processing, and leaderboards[2]
  • Arbitrary game data storage and retrieval for files to atomic data[3]
  • Team, guild, and clan services and management
  • NAT Negotiation
  • In-game purchases and downloadable content
  • Presence, authentication, game invites, and instant messaging[4]
  • Player chat rooms
  • CD key authentication
  • Voice communication
  • HTTP, XML, and socket data transport

Supported platforms

Integrated technology partners

Game engines

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Learn About Our Matchmaking Features". GameSpy Technology. Archived from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Learn About Our Player Metrics, Rankings and Competition Features". GameSpy Technology. Archived from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Learn About Our Cloud Storage Features". GameSpy Technology. Archived from the original on 11 July 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Learn About Our Community Features". GameSpy Technology. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.


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